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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 104, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.205001
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- NASA [NNX07AF32G, NNX08AM37G, NNX08AO83G]
- NSF [ATM-0645271]
- STFC [ST/G00725X/1]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/G00725X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/G00725X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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In situ measurements of magnetic reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail are presented showing that even a moderate guide field (20% of the reconnecting field) considerably distorts ion diffusion region structure. The Hall magnetic and electric fields are asymmetric and shunted away from the current sheet; an appropriately scaled particle-in-cell simulation is found to be in excellent agreement with the data. The results show the importance of correctly accounting for the effects of the magnetic shear when attempting to identify and study magnetic reconnection diffusion regions in nature.
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